The coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in the Bay Area and Seattle, but so far at a rate slower than in the country's other hot spots such as New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Louisiana.
For California and Washington, the coronavirus triggers came early. They pushed the two Western states to social distancing measures earlier than the rest of the country.
The coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in both places, but so far at a rate slower than in the country's other hot spots such as New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Louisiana. The implementation of the shelter-in-place orders in the Bay Area"happened closer to the introduction of the virus, so you haven't had as many generations of transmission. So there are fewer cases per capita in the population," Rutherford said.
Indeed, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had doubled over the course of four days — and the number in intensive care units had nearly tripled. The lack of widespread testing can also mask how many people are actually infected and passing the virus around, Yang said. The true number"is going to determine how much hospital resources are going to be needed," he said.
Officials advising President Trump said their model of the pandemic mirrors the University of Washington projections. But other experts have raised doubts about the conclusions. "It's not obvious to me, especially in states without control orders, that we will get anything like the shutdown we saw in Wuhan," said Carl T. Bergstrom, an expert in mathematical and computational biology.
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